The tale at left is a reminder that we live in a world where kindness is “trending,” to use the popular term. This became apparent, to me at least, with the imperative to commit “random acts of kindness” concept of perhaps …
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A Little Existentialism for This First Day of the New Year
If you can relate to the meme here, and you’re willing to “surrender to the mystery,” you’ll love the composition of American singer-songwriter Iris Dement, below.
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What a Successful 2023 Looks Like
I found this meme from a reader quite interesting. Personally, I will call 2023 a good year to the degree it represents an overall improved quality of life for the world’s people. That means: • Full restoration of American democracy …
Tagged with: decarbonized energy and transportation, fair taxation of the rich, progress in climate change mitigation, restoration of American democracy and justice for those who tried to overthrow it, sustainability for all life forms on our home planet, the development of social programs like quality education and universal healthcare, the freedom index and the world happiness ranking
It’s a Metamorphosis
I don’t know about you, but I go back and forth on stuff like this…and I don’t use words like “imaginal.” From her bio: Dr. Jude Currivan is a cosmologist, planetary healer, futurist, author, previously one of the most senior …
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Trump’s Tax Returns
The fact that Trump avoided paying taxes using every means legal should surprise no one; it’s a tactic available to everyone, and the wealthier one is, the more latitude one has to play these tricks. To most observers, however, there …
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Americans Have the Illusion of Choice
If, on top of this, you add corporate control of the media that Americans are force-fed, you have 98+% of the U.S. electorate that are truly powerless to control their financial condition, let alone reproductive rights, etc. We have the …
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Human Life Is “Unraveling,” But No One Seems To Care
This from British scientist and conservationist Charlie Gardner. It really is astonishing how little humankind is doing to prevent environmental collapse and other forms of societal decay. An important factor at play here is that the vast majority of the …
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Tagged with: 20th Century American author Upton Sinclair, a societal structure that is in the process of driving us into extinction, irreparable damage that our current life modalities are having this planet, “It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”
Let’s Plant Trees
Every once in a while I write a short post extolling the virtue of planting trees as a tool in climate change mitigation. Normally, these are inspired by the works of an artist I follow, Italy’s Maurizio Rega. I simply …
Republicans Seem To Be Deepening Their Graves
Perhaps the single most telling aspect of the moral demise of the Republican Party is its failure to criticize its congresspeople for things like entertaining racists at the White House and running election campaigns based on pure lies. Can’t someone …
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Big Lie Loses its Grip
Re: the words at left, a reader notes: New Year’s Resolution: “I can not tell a lie… Neither can you!” It will be interesting to see how this plays out, as the Big Lie continues to lose its grip on …
